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Autostraddle Bi+ Week Roundtable: Choosing Visibility
How do we want to be seen in our daily lives? How much control do we really have over it? How do we make ourselves visible in a world that often chooses not to see us clearly, and what risks and complications come with it? There’s no one answer, which is why we had all these Autostraddle staffers who identify somewhere under the bisexual umbrella talk about it for you!
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Call For Submissions: “Renaissance,” Personal Essays From Black LGBT Women
I’m guest editing an essay series for Autostraddle next month and am looking for personal essays about how your black queer life has been saved or influenced by art in all forms, from television to sculpture.
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PHOTO GALLERY: Queer in the Stacks
It’s you and like 85 of your closest Autostraddle friends posing with your favorite books! Get in here!
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A+ Roundtable: Internalized Homophobia and Other Endearing Forms of Low-Key Self-Hatred
Unpacking internalized homophobia (and lesbophobia, and biphobia, and transphobia, and misogyny, and MORE) is hard, but for you we did our best!
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Feelings Rookie: So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye
Goodbyes are only goodbye if I want them to be. Life is about making connections and working to maintain them. It’s also such a wild ride that you never know where you’ll end up or who will end up there with you.
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100 Jean Styles, Ranked By Lesbianism
“Mom in the streets, Mimi from rent in the sheets”
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Top 10 Best Ghosts of 2016
7. The Ghost of Hope for the Future of America
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Also.Also.Also: Beer Astrology, Legos, Death and Other Stories for Your Beautiful Mind
Beer horoscopes you can drink, DREAMer Daniela Vargas, Daria, being trans in a conservative school, Texas take a fucking seat, you too NPR, Lego making dreams come true, and so much more!
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NSFW Sunday Is Syncing Periods
Whether or not period syncing is allegedly a lie, the secret lives of hot people, aftercare for everyone, how to have casual sex, how to win at relationship fight club and more.
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Finding Hope on Trans Day of Visibility
“Trans Day of Visibility gives me hope. When I see trans people proudly being themselves in public I have hope. When I see allies retweeting links on how to support trans women I have hope. When I see brilliant selfies of trans people I have hope. When I see trans people celebrating a day that’s about us, I have hope.”
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2016 By The Numbers: An A+ Member Exclusive
Just some numbers and charts and graphs about this year we all experienced together!
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Drawn to Comics: Maggie Thrash’s Debut “Honor Girl” Captures Teenage Camp Queerness
“So much of being a girl in this society is about people trying to CONTAIN you. When I think about camp, I get this gut feeling, remembering the sky above my head. No walls, no parents. During the school year, you’re just trying to survive. Camp is a chance to be someone freer- an actual person.”
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Queer Girl City Guide: Asheville, North Carolina
It’s a little city full of odds and ends (and some queers) planted in the mountains.
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“Power Rangers” Gives Young Queer Latinas Hope For A Superheroic Future
Trini, the Mexican-American Yellow Ranger, tells her friends that she’s figuring out her sexuality and that she likes girls, and in the process she finds a family.
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Autostraddle Roundtable: We Love Documentaries
These are the documentaries that changed our lives and/or made us better people and/or entertained us. Maybe you’ll like them too!
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I Accidentally Went Looking For God In Portland
On Easter Sunday, I didn’t go to a church, but I quietly praised God at brunch in community with friends and strangers and so many carbs and those tiny Cadbury chocolate eggs.
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“Orphan Black” Episode 507 Recap: Eye of the Storm
Rachel is fucking metal and don’t you ever forget it again.
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Ani DiFranco Has a Song From 20 Years Ago That Works For This Moment
With her 20th studio album out and a tour with Andrea Gibson on the horizon, the li’l folksinger talks politics, activism, and why she’s still getting happier as she gets older. She also called me babe.
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Read A F*cking Book: “In Full Velvet,” by Jenny Johnson
Immerse yourself in these poems and prepare to come out raw and clean.
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Katy Perry Wins Yet Another Gay Allyship Award, Admits She More-Than-Kissed A Girl, Only Kinda Liked It
This weekend, Katy Perry received the HRC’s “highest honor,” the National Equality Award, and everybody’s talking about her inspirational speech — but does Katy Perry really deserve an award for LGBT advocacy in the first place? And does it even matter, really, when you consider the impending heat death of the universe, etc.